Plaquemines Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl, Heroin and Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy
According to court documents, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents started investigating GLASS in June 2020 as a narcotics distributor in the New Orleans metropolitan area. The investigation involved use of physical and electronic…
Orleans Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Drug Trafficking Offenses
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DAVID SINGLETON, age 62, of New Orleans, pled guilty to violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act. Specifically, SINGLETON pled guilty to…
Orleans Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Firearms Violation
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on April 19, 2022, defendant EDWARD DAVIS, age 45, resident of New Orleans, LA, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Jay…
Orleans Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Carjackings and Weapons Charges
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on April 19, 2022, defendant RICHARD JONES, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on April 10, 2022 before U.S. District Court…
Orleans Parish Financial Manager Charged with Embezzling Over $200,000
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KATIE LAROCHE, age 53, from New Orleans, was charged on April 19, 2022 with wire fraud, based on her embezzlement of…
Orleans Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Violating the Federal Controlled Substances and Gun Control Acts
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – KENDALL GILMER, JR., age 41, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on April 6, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk to possession with intent…
Former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain Sentenced to 120 Months Imprisonment After Previously Pleading Guilty to Soliciting and Receiving Bribes Involving Contract for Privatization of Work Release Program in St. Tammany Parish
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that former long-time St. Tammany Parish Sheriff RODNEY J. STRAIN (a/k/a Jack Strain), age 56, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, was sentenced today to…
Eight Tangipahoa Parish Residents Indicted for Violations of The Federal Controlled Substances and Gun Control Acts
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – MICHAEL ALEXANDER, SR., a/k/a “Monsta,” a/k/a “Jamond,” age 39, ATTREL ANDERSON, a/k/a “Trey,” a/k/a “Trel,” a/k/a “Da Boi,” age 30, TERRELL HAYNES, a/k/a “Redman,”age 43, STAR ROBICHAUX, age…
Orleans Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Trafficking Charges
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on March 29, 2022 ANDREW PAYTON, age 48, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty to Count 1 of a…
Saint Tammany Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft in Connection
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RONALD S. RILEY, JR., (“RILEY’), age 26, of Slidell, Louisiana plead guilty on March 28 to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and…
Orleans Parish Man Sentenced on Weapons and Narcotic Charges
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant KIRK THOMPSON, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on March 23rd by U.S. District Court Judge Lance Africk to 117…
Jefferson Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – Travis CARTER, a/k/a “Tree,” age 42, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, pled guilty on March 17, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to a one-count indictment…
Former Caddo Parish Commissioner and Sister Sentenced to Time in Federal Prison
SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Lynn D. Cawthorne, 55, a former Caddo Parish Commissioner, and his sister and co-defendant, Belena C. Turner, 50, both of Shreveport,…
Assumption Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RODNEY ROUSSELL (“ROUSSELL”), age 40, of Belle Rose, Louisiana, pled guilty today to bank fraud, in violation of Title 18,…
Tangipahoa Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JAMES WATTS, age 50, a resident of Amite, Louisiana, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon yesterday to a one count superseding bill of information…
Washington Parish Man Sentenced After Pleading Guilty to Violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – DEMARQUIEZ HARRIS (“D. HARRIS”), age 26, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was sentenced on March 3, 2022, by United States District Judge Wendy B. Vitter to 262 months’…
Jefferson Parish Man Sentenced For 3 Bank Robberies
NEW ORLEANS – ZACHARY VERDIN, age 29, a resident of Marrero, was sentenced this week by United States District Judge Susie Morgan, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. VERDIN was sentenced on…
Washington Parish Man Indicted for Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JAKARI BROWN, a/k/a “Jakari Lemar,” age 23, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was charged on February 25, 2022, in a one-count indictment by a federal grand jury with…
Washington Parish Man Sentenced for Violations of The Federal Controlled Substances Act
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – CHRISTOPHER HARRIS, age 28, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was sentenced to sixty (60) months’ imprisonment, four (4) years of supervised release and a $200 mandatory special assessment…
Jefferson Parish Man Pleads Guilty to Violations of The Controlled Substances Act
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that CHRIS HABISREITINGER, 51, from Jefferson Parish, pled guilty on February 23, 2022 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the…
Terrebonne Parish Man Sentenced for Possessing Machinegun
NEW ORLEANS, LA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that KENDALL PARKER, Jr., age 28, a resident of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced on February 16, 2022 to thirty (30) months…
Plaquemines Parish Man Sentenced for Possessing Firearm with Fifty Round Extended Magazine
NEW ORLEANS, LA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that MIKAL BLACK, age 24, a resident of Ironton, Louisiana, was sentenced on February 22, 2022 to fifty-seven (57) months of…
Investigation into Sale of Methamphetamine in Sabine Parish Leads to Federal Prison Time for Many, LA Man
SHREVEPORT, La. – Samuel Holbert Brumfield a/k/a “Sammy B,” 35, of Many, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Donald E. Walter, United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced. Brumfield…
Terrebonne Parish Man Indicted for Over a Kilo of Fentanyl and Multiple Firearms
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JON VERDIN, age 25, of Terrebonne Parish, La., was charged February 11, 2022, in a three (3) count indictment by a federal grand jury with narcotics and firearms…
St. Bernard Parish Man Pleads Guilty for Role in Airline Baggage Scam
NEW ORLEANS, LA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DONMONICK MARTIN, age 30, of Chalmette, Louisiana, pled guilty on February 9, 2022 to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation…
Jefferson Parish Man Sentenced for Mail Fraud
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – KHANH BUI, age 45, a resident of Westwego, Louisiana, was sentenced on February 8, 2022 for mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. The Honorable Susie Morgan…
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